Robert Smythe Hichens was a satirist and critic, having studied at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music, and the London School of Journalism. He was a friend of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas.Hichens was born in Speldhurst in Kent, the eldest son of a clergyman.[1] He was educated at Clifton College,[3] the Royal College of Music and early on had a desire to be a musician.[1] Later in life he would be a music critic on the World, taking the place of George Bernard Shaw.[1] He studied at the London School of Journalism. Hichens was a great traveller. Egypt was one of his favourite destinations – he first went there in the early 1890s for his health.[1] For most of his later life he lived outside England, in Switzerland and the Riviera.[1] Hichens was a homosexual;[4] he never married. Less